The Law of Open Societies -- Private Ordering and Public Regulation of International Relations. General Course on Private International Law by J. Basedow, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law.
About the Author: Co-publication with: The Hague Academy of International Law.

Jürgen Basedow, born on 29 September 1949 at Hamburg, Germany Universities of Hamburg, Geneva and Pavìa; first and Second State examinations in Law, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (1974 and 1978); Visiting Research Fellow, Asser Instituut voor Internationaal Recht, The Hague (1977); Research Associate, Institut de droit comparé, Paris (1977-1978); Dr. iur., University of Hamburg (1979); Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (1979-1986); LL.M. Harvard University (1981); Dr. iur. habil., University of Hamburg (1986).
Professor of Law, University of Augsburg (1987-1995, dean, 1993-1994);
Professor of Law, Free University of Berlin (1995-1997); Director, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and Professor of Law, University of Hamburg (since 1997); Chairman of the humanities Section of the
Max planck Society (2000-2003); Acting Director, Max planck institute for History (2004-2006).
Otto Hahn Medal of the Max planck Society for the advancement of Science (1979); Kurt hartwig Siemers award, Hamburgische Wissenschaftliche Stiftung (1987); Award of the Stinnes Foundation (1989); Honorary Doctorate in Law, University of Stockholm (2002); Honorary Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University; Honorary Doctorate in Economics, Leuphana University of Lüneburg (2012); Honorary Doctorate in Law, State University of Tbilisi (2012).
Visiting Professor at the following universities: Ferrara (1989, 1991); Genoa (1989, 1991), Lyon 3-Jean Moulin (1992, 1997); New York University (2011); Oxford (2003); Paris 2-Panthéon-Assas (2001); Pittsburgh, pa. (1993); Rotterdam (2000); Tunis 2 (2002); Xi'an Jiaotong University as Marco Polo Fellow of the Silk Road Institute (2008); Hague Academy of International Law: Director of Studies (1987), course on international competition law (in French, 1997).
Associate Member of the Institut de droit international (since 2011); Titular Member (since 1998) and Secretary General (since 2006), international academy of comparative Law; Member of the Groupe européen de droit international privé (since 2000); Member of the Academia Europaea (since 2000);
Member (since 1998) and President (2006-2008), International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law; Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (since 2007); Member, American Law institute (since 2008).
Member of various advisory committees of the German government and the European Commission: Deregulation Committee (Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs, 1988-1991); German council of private international Law (federal Ministry of Justice, since 1988); committee on Licensing of Mass consignments (federal Ministry of post and communications, 1992-1993); Committee on Transport Law (Federal Ministry of Justice, 1992-1996); Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Transport (1997-2000); German Monopoly Commission (2000-2008, chairman 2004-2008); Committee on Insurance Law (FederalMinistry of Justice, 2000-2004); Think Tank on private enforcement of competition Law (European Commission, DG competition, 2004-2005); Advisory Board of the German Supervisory authority for financial Services, BAFIN (2005-2010); Expert Group on insurance Law (European Commission, DG Justice, 2013-2015).
Co-founder and co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht (ZEuP);Co-editor of Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales
Privatrecht (RabelsZ) and of Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht, coeditor of the Max Planck Encyclopedia of European Private Law, oxford, 2012.